Create a license usage report schedule

Before you can create a license usage billing report schedule, you must be in a role with permissions to view and modify utility billing reports.

Note: If F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management cannot access api.f5.com or pass traffic through port 443, you must manually submit the report to F5 Networks instead of submitting automatically. Manually submit your report to vesubscriptions@f5.com.

You create a schedule so that BIG-IQ can automatically license generate usage reports at the same time every month for all your utility licenses.

1. At the top of the screen, click Devices.

2. On the left, click LICENSE MANAGEMENT > Reports.

3. Click the Schedule button at the top of the screen.

4. For Schedule Status, select the Enablecheck box.

5. Select Automatically submit report to F5 for the Submission Method.

   If BIG-IQ cannot access api.f5.com or pass traffic through port 443, you must manually submit the report to F5 Networks offline, instead of submitting it from BIG-IQ. For information about how to manually submit the report offline, contact F5 Support.

6. Specify the Day of the Month (from 1 to 28), the Start time hour (from 0 to 23) and minute (from 0 to 59) that you want BIG-IQ to create the utility reports.

7. If you want to obscure the device’s host name and IP address in the report, select Yes for Obfuscate Data.

8. If you want BIG-IQ to send an email when the report is created, select the Enable check box for Email Notification, and type one (or more) email address(es) in the box, separated by commas.

9. Click the Save & Close button.

BIG-IQ will create license usage reports on the day of the month and the time you specified. If you enabled email notification, BIG-IQ also sends a notification to the email address(es) specified to let them know the reports are available. When BIG-IQ successfully generates the report and submits it to F5 Networks, it also displays it in the reports list.